I'm sad, I was cut one day short of practicum work with my kids this week! They didn't have school on Friday due to Veteran's day. I'm really starting to feel attached to them, but I guess that comes with teaching.
I've been trying to focus on why my students are there, and why they want to learn English. It's always interesting to talk to them and get their perspectives. I was not able to talk too much with the 7th and 8th grade class because literally half of them were suspended for things like having weed in their locker or getting into a fight. Not exactly a good start to the week.
Talking with the 5th and 6th graders was insightful, I need to have more conversations, however to get a more clear answer. First, I started with basic generic questions.
"Why do you come to school?"
-to learn, to get a job, because I have to
"Do you like school?"
-answers varied from yes, very much so to I'd rather be playing soccer or video games
Then I continued on..
"Well, what about English? What do you think of learning that?"
-it's hard to understand sometimes, I have trouble with it
-I want to become a doctor, so learning English is a very good thing for me
-I want to get a good job someday, you know? I mean my dad does a good job of taking care of us, but he doesn't know English, so he has to work in a factory for a long time
-English is easy.
I plan to continue asking these kids more questions -- I can't ask them TOO in depth of questions because they're only 10, but so far so good. This will really help with my 345 paper.
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